Improvement in feed-tables for printing-presses



ntd tant HENRY BAVR'IH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 90,482, dated 'May 25, 1869.4

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-TABLES FOR PRINTING-PRESSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

NN- w- To whom 'it may concern:

- upward and forward from the delivery-edge of the feedboard.

Figure I is a perspective view of a feed-board provided with myattachment.l

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.

vThe preferred formof my feed-board ,A has, projecting from its underside, two or more ears, of which one, B, only, is shown, which earsreceive a shaft, "C, upon which the said board is supported at anyconvenient angle, and held thereto by one or more set-screws D, or othersuitable device.

Firmly attached to, and projecting obliquely upward and outward from thedelivery-edge of the feed-board,

are one or more ngers, E, which may be either straight or curved upward,as represented.

The action of the fingers E upon the sheets, when the latter are pressedforward against them, is to cause the uppermost ones to extend forwardof those below, so as to be easily grasped and separated, one at a time,by the attendant I have described my invention applied to an adjustablefeed-board, but it may be applied to a board xed at a specilicdeclination; or the said fingers might be applied'to an ordinaryhorizontal .feed-board; or any other mode ofy securing 'the adjustmentof the feedboard may be employed.

For example, the feed-board might have a pair of trunnions, occupyingsuitable bearings, and held to the desired angle by a screw-clamp orotherwise.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- 1. The provision of a ngeror fingers, E, bent or inclined upward from the delivery-edge of apaperfeed board, substantially as and for the 'purpose set forth. f 1

2. A feed-board, A, having fingers E, and capable of being set to anydesired angle, substantially as described.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

HENRY BARTH. Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, J uns H. LAYMAN.

